finesse.components.nothing.Nothing

Overview

class finesse.components.nothing.Nothing(name)

Bases: Connector

Represents an empty point in the interferometer configuration.

Nothing is just some point in space that can be connected to. For example, you can use this to propagate a beam from some component out to some arbitrary point to make a measurement at. You can also use this to split spaces up, if you wanted to measure something inbetween two components. It can also be used to replace a component, for example if you want to remove a lens or a mirror in some beam path.

Parameters:

namestr

Name of newly created nothing.